Resistance Exercise with Older Fallers: Its Impact on Intermuscular Adipose Tissue
Table 3
Muscle composition outcomes for participants with high and low muscle fat fractions.
High IMAT ()
Low IMAT ()
Pretraining
Posttraining
Nine-month follow-up
Within-group change
Pretraining
Posttraining
Nine-month follow-up
Within-group change
IMAT (cm2)
37.75 (8.8)
35.56 (8.8)
36.20 (8.6)
25.01 (6.7)
26.53 (7.0)
26.38 (6.9)
Lean (cm2)
181.6 (36.6)
183.2 (35.6)
178.6 (32.4)
192.1 (46.1)
193.5 (46.1)
190.4 (44.4)
% IMAT
17.24 (2.2)
16.27 (2.5)
16.88 (2.6)
11.54 (1.6)
12.15 (2.4)
12.26 (2.2)
BMI (kg/m2)
30.02 (5.3)
29.87 (5.1)
29.46 (5.2)
26.42 (5.4)
26.42 (4.9)
26.24 (4.9)
Mean (±SD); high IMAT >14.5% IMAT, low IMAT <14.5% IMAT; IMAT: intermuscular adipose tissue cross-sectional area; lean: lean tissue cross-sectional area; %IMAT: fraction IMAT per total lean and IMAT area of the mid-thigh; BMI: Body Mass Index.